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Some summer bouquet love on this dreary day. A bouquet like this is so fragrant and fun to carry...bury your face in those incredible real life garden roses (they actually smell like roses!) lovingly cut by the folks at @gracerosefarm...that scented geranium foliage, perfumed nicotiana blossoms...it’s more than just looks when you buy farm-grown flowers ✨✨🌸 @henryphotographs, ribbon from @thelesserbear
Getting nerdy over on the blog with some info on what we do with all these sheep. Yep- it’s a bit more than pretty photos for my Instagram feed. Link in profile. Photo by @henryphotographs ✨
Excited to sand walls with you today, babe 😘 Photo by @racheljoybarehl ✨✨
Have you ever tried loving every flower that you see? I don’t recommend it. Bad for your wallet.
All of my seeds are bought and paid for thru June. It’s a good feeling. Certainly not enough room on this farm for everything I’ve bought and plan to sow. But I love sowing seeds. It’s therapeutic, mindless work and now that podcasts are a thing it’s my favorite way to binge. Photo from golden summer days by @henryphotographs who always makes it shine.
Well, I thought I might hop on the #fridayintroductions wagon and tell you a little about me, so continuing with the numbered list idea, here goes: 1. I was halfway through a pre-med degree when I realized that I was unable to take someone’s blood pressure without fainting. Though I still loved science. Enter: Botany. 2. Which makes sense, because flowers have always been a bit of a thing in my family. One look at my mother’s amazing gardens and my grandfather’s paintings and you’ll know. 3. I love color. I love old chippy things and weird things and creepy things and patterns and texture. Clean lines and neutral tones are nice but not what turns me on. 4. My clippers are acid yellow because I lose clippers constantly. I lose them in the field, I lose them in the studio, I lose my mind trying to find them. I always have a farmers tan. My hair is not a priority most days. 5. I’m a dog person, a cat person, a country live-r and city lover. I love cooking antiquing and birds and I hope that reincarnation is real because I’ll need a hundred lifetimes on this planet to do all the things I want to do. So there you have it 😘 Thanks for the shot, @kyliebrickerphoto 💛
Truthfully I am so floored and excited about so many things today. So here’s a numbered list. 1. We sold out of our summer cutting garden class in 12 hours! Our floristry course is nearly sold out as well. I know there are more of you who a wanting to get your hands in the dirt, so don’t worry, this August I’ll be offering a course to help make your spring 2020 garden the best it’s ever been! (I know that timing feels weird- but trust me!) 🌸 2. Our sheep are all looking fantastic and twin baby boys are thriving with their mom. We traveled a long way and spent A LOT of money on that ewe, and to see the investment pay off is really rewarding. Plenty more lambs to come. 🐑 3. I went out in the garden yesterday to peek at the overwintered plants. I nearly fell on my face from being stuck in the mud, but I’m happy to report that upon overturning some leaves, the hellebores are starting to sprout and the daffodils are beginning to poke through. So perhaps more images like this darling one from @jennyhaas will come to fruition in a few short months!
You may have seen the *teaser* in my stories today (but actually. I gave it all away because I’m just like that) but I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be teaching on-farm workshops this year at our little flower and sheep farm. If you are a florist curious about incorporating more local flowers into your designs, starting your own cutting patch, or just need a breather in the country and a chance to add to your portfolio, come see us! If you are a grower who wants to add flowers (a very lucrative crop!) to their offerings, a farmer who wants to learn some design skills so they can share their product...sign up! If you love to host beautiful parties, have a DIY spirit, or want to make your back garden the prettiest it’s ever been...you have to check out these classes! I’ll be packing these workshops with all the knowledge I’ve gained as a student of botany, a grower of flowers and a maker of designs. Plus, it’ll be fun. And we will feed you. We’ll see you at the farm this spring! Link in profile. Photo by @kyliebrickerphoto
We have babies! Last night, we had a first timer deliver twin ram lambs. Both are super healthy and vigorous and in a few weeks are sure to be troublemakers like this little gang up there. Only 26 ewes left to go 😅 so hang in there with me on email responses for the next few weeks. If you need me, I’ll be in the barn! Photo by the remarkable @christakimblephoto 🐑
Spending the past two days working on antiquated computing equipment, updating my website, has been tiresome and frustrating and I’VE HAD IT so I’m going to Best Buy tomorrow for a new laptop so I can actually be efficient with my less-than-favorite aspects of farmer floristry. But it is a good reminder of all the gorgeous projects I’ve gotten to work on in the past year. Like this one, from an engagement shoot styled by @eventshelddear, captured by @kyliebrickerphoto, beautiful ribbon by @thelesserbear ✨
We did this beautiful #hamilton shoot in our home a few October’s ago. While the brilliance of @henryphotographs and @auburnandivorycreative made our hallway look like it has the aged walls of a French chateau, that is really just old wallpaper paste that we have yet to get around to painting over. Alas, our failure to complete this project is getting embarrassing, so we are preparing ourselves for many trips to Lowe’s next week to get this foyer looking fresh. Go check out Meredith’s blog over at Auburn and Ivory to see more from this shoot and hear more from Meredith’s heart. You’ll quickly see why working with her is such a damn treat. And if you haven’t seen the musical yet, grab yourself tickets to see the show in Columbus. Worth every penny.
Back when it was warm ✨🔥
Today we brought the ewes in to vaccinate and gave them a quick check over now that we are weeks away from lambing. We vaccinate the mamas so they can pass on immunity to the lambs, protecting them from various lethal diseases and ailments. Everyone is looking healthy and a few gals are starting to look quite pregnant. When we first started breeding sheep, I’d be out in the barn for hours, staring at the ewes udders and genitals, googling lambing signs and trying to determine when we can expect babies 😂 Now, after a couple of years, I know what to look for and let me tell you...when mama is a day or so away from giving birth, you know! Excited to have a new group of bouncing little goofballs around, so be ready to get plagued with all the baby pics and vids ✌️ Action shot by @jennyhaas
Today on the blog: sharing a little recap of our trip to St. Croix, in an attempt to think warm thoughts on this punishing winter day. Go check it out, wanderlusters.
A little something-something on this eve. Definitely equal parts missing vacation and getting ready for a new kind of vacation: being snowed in. Thankfully we are stocked up on food (thanks to @yellowbirdfoodshed and our chest freezers full of the yummy meats Brad raises here), booze and firewood. So I think I’ll fare just fine. So here’s a photo from a day that was about 100 degrees warmer than Sunday’s forecasted low temp by @jennapowersphoto 🔥🔥 #ohioweather #wegetitall
We’re signing off for the week, heading to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands! Having never been south of the states, I’m so excited to explore and take a little time to warm up before lambing and sowing gets into full swing. Some fun facts about St. Croix? It is the island for which the St. Croix sheep are named, the foundation breed for the Katahdin (the sheep we raise). It’s also the home of young Alexander Hamilton (yeah guys the obsession is real). So I’m sharing a little moment from this Hamilton inspired shoot. Fun and fond memories of this day with people who have become amazing friends. Photo by @henryphotographs styling @auburnandivorycreative paper @cheeruppress ribbon @thelesserbear ✨✨
Definitely still missing the garden as we wrap up a busy week of designing for our friends! As usual, my lack of experience with ordering wholesale flowers left me making things that weren’t exactly what I had in mind. I’m much better when I have a whole big field to choose from, spending the better part of the year planning the perfect flowers, colors, and textures to grow for all of our weddings. I often get asked in consultations if I had some sort of mega crop failure (Asteroid? Biblical plague of a thousand white tail?) if I can still make the flowers. The answer is of course! We can’t possibly grow everything, so we turn to farm friends like @solisagroflowerfarm @gracerosefarm @whitewalnutflowers @theruralsociety @traceyrae_farmerflorist To name a few...and also buy from our trusty, patient wholesalers when we need just the right thing. I’m gonna stick with that, and spend the rest of the winter setting aside my clippers and diving deep into improving our growing methods and flower selection. My big goals this year are to successfully grow delphiniums in the field, have a profitable lisianthus crop, keep up with a consistent sunflower sowing schedule, and finally cutting some freeloading flowers from the team (here’s looking at you, scabiosa) Next weekend I’ll start sowing some perennials in the dungeon. I’ve got verbascum, yarrow, and those sexy delphinium on my list. What else? Anyone itching to get their hands back in the promix?
I absolutely love photos of my garden. More than anything. Designing flowers is so fun, a great challenge, and I love it so. It just can’t compare to the magic of a sprouting seed, an unfurling bloom. I studied botany in college. I know ‘why’ all of this happens. Intellectually, there is no magic...it’s a product of evolution, sexual reproduction, cell division...it’s why the world turns as it does. Nonetheless, these gorgeous angiosperms, fiddled and toyed with by generations of humans to do and look exactly how we want. There’s magic there. Humans who work so hard for beauty. A few of those humans captured by @christakimblephoto ✨✨✨
A peek at one of this year’s highlights, getting to make this awesome piece with @ahernandezart and @mollyeliz57 for their amazing #landoflovebirds wedding this past fall. The vision for this wedding was so unique, and a true collaboration between us and the couple. Adam’s work is typically full of color, but this black and white piece was full of beautiful symbolism for their relationship, journeys, and loves. I scoured the farm for material that matched the vibe, using lots of foraged weeds, misshapen celosias, those sunflowers who had dropped their petals.
Today I’m telling you something you already know: May weddings in Ohio are a good thing. What you might not know, is that it can be a pretty unpredictable month, flower-wise. Doesn’t mean it’s any less beautiful, as evidenced by Maddie’s bouquet from last spring. More at the link in profile.